Drinking beer in a children's playground is an old Soviet tradition.

The common good and the individual good rarely coincide.

When leaders betray their people and the people don't overthrow them, it's not just the leaders who should be blamed.

You're a big boy, you ought to understand that punctual transport, public order and safe streets, polite people and good medical services are all the achievements of dictatorship.

Nobody can be forced to commit an act of villainy. You can't push anybody into the mud; people always step into it themselves.

Fairy tales lie just as much as statistics do, but sometimes you can find a grain of truth in them.

When there are strange things going on all around, every coincidence should be considered very carefully.

If you have love in you, it's a strength. But if you are in love, it's a weakness.

There is very much in the world that is bad. But usually the attempt to defeat evil engenders more evil. I advise you to do good; that is the only way to win the victory.

Love is happiness, but only when you believe it will last forever. Even though every time it turns out to be a lie, it’s only faith that gives love its strength and its joy.

What was my truth worth, if I was prepared to defend the entire world, but not those who were close to me? If I subdued hate, but wouldn't give love a chance?

Some teach youwhat can't be taught, by turning their backon you & helpingyou get internallycloser to everythingyou externallysought.

The Holy Scripture speaks life into our lives.

The true secret to genius is in creativity, not in technical mechanics.

The only thing government does better than killing is lying and covering things up.

My feeling is, quite simply, that if there is a God, He has done such a bad job that he isn't worth discussing.

I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race - that rarely do I ever simply estimate it.

My brother never got an opportunity to throw a pitch, and I didn't want the same thing to happen to another young kid.

We must learn to die, and to die in the fullest sense of the word. The fear of the end is the source of all lovelessness

I choose to work with every single person that I work with. That ends up being the most important factor. I don't interact with people I don't like or admire. That's the key. It's like marrying.